It’s still autumn out there. All the oak trees have turned bronze, but a lot of red and yellow leaves are still on the trees. It has been a beautiful autumn, no matter how awful other things have been, the… Read More ›
Woodpeckers
BLACK-FEATHERED BIRDS WITH MANY OTHER COLORS
BIRD WEEKLY – PHOTO CHALLENGE – BIRDS WITH BLACK FEATHERS Over the past couple of days, I’ve taken at least 400 pictures of our local woodsy birds. This isn’t the best time of year for bird pictures because many of the… Read More ›
THE HAIRY WOODPECKER RETURNS – ALL SQUARES AS THE MONTH IS ENDING
The hairy woodpecker is back! She has been coming daily and eating a lot. I don’t know if she has a nest full of babies or she’s trying to eat enough to keep warm in the oncoming cold. It has… Read More ›
SO MUCH WOOD, SO LITTLE TIME …
Kinda like a lady who pecks the wood Here are the rest of this set of pictures of Mrs. Hairy Woodpecker. I have are more pictures, but they look pretty similar to these so I probably won’t do anything with… Read More ›
KINDA BUSY PECKING WOOD
Something of the kind who like to peck wood I’ve been watching this family of woodpeckers remove almost all the bark on one side of a catalpa tree that shades our deck. I have to assume that the tree had… Read More ›
KIND OF FEATHERY: A SQUARE HAIRY WOODPECKER DOING THE WORK HE WAS BORN TO DO
THE SQUARE COMMUNITY It’s kind of feathery in our backyard. This is a very busy Hairy Woodpecker whacking the hell out of an insect-infested tree in our woods. It’s not just this woodpecker. There are a slew of them. Half… Read More ›
A GOLDEN DAY IN AUTUMN
Autumn came weeks early because of the long summer drought that is not over yet. We had a normal spring, but then the rain stopped falling. We’ve had a bit of rain and too much wind and autumn flew away…. Read More ›
THE BIRDS ARE EATING LIKE CRAZY
I’ve been feeding birds for a few years now and I’m pretty used to their feeding habits. Generally, they come in groups. Flocks of Goldfinches, a couple of Cardinals — orange or red and some orange babies, too. Lots of… Read More ›
OISEAUX DU JOUR
Another perfect day. Cool, comfortable, sunny. Not a hint of rain. Well, okay, that is I admit, a flaw because we really need rain … but it’s a holiday weekend so perfect weather doesn’t include rain no matter how much… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASON – AUGUST 2020
The Changing Seasons, August 2020 So here we are with summer about to end. It’s Labor Day next weekend. Time to start school. Oh, wait, there is no school. Well, maybe there will be so crunchy leaves underfoot, if only we… Read More ›
HAIRY WOODPECKER AT WORK
I got up this morning and there was a hairy woodpecker working hard on a tree. He wasn’t where I usually shoot, but I managed to find a window that was clean enough to shoot through and I got some… Read More ›
SPARROWS, WOODPECKERS, AND CAROLINA WRENS
We got a bit of rain yesterday and today, but not enough. Not nearly enough. We are in a stage called “serious drought, ” but we may move into “dangerous drought” by the end of next week. Not surprisingly, living… Read More ›
